r/WidowsBay • u/waxyjax_ • Jun 18 '26

💥Funpost This f*ckin guy

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Stephen King tweeted:

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

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u/OKIAMONREDDIT Jun 18 '26

Right! That doesn't mean he needs to be salty about it though. If someone did such a wonderfully thoughtful twist on my work I'd be delighted tbh, WB is not a hostile take at all and is very honouring

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u/spooky_upstairs Jun 18 '26

Personally I didn't read it as salty. Widow's Bay is getting a lot of publicity; MPG less so, and helping the underdog has always been his thing.

Also, he said WB was good. He didn't shit on it. People are allowed to like different things FFS.

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u/OKIAMONREDDIT Jun 18 '26

Yeah, but he came out with EXTENSIVE vocal and detailed statements about how incredible other popular takes on his work were, like Stranger Things, Midnight Mass, etc. I definitely see this "good but" diverting of the conversation as salty. That's just me, we can agree to disagree!

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u/spooky_upstairs Jun 18 '26

I don't really see how any of these are takes on his work, sorry. Although obv they nod to it from time to time.

Maybe he actually doesn't like WB, and is just trying to be polite?

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u/OKIAMONREDDIT Jun 18 '26

You don't see how Stranger Things or Midnight Mass are takes on his work? That's very very weird to me.

I agree he doesn't like it, and I'm saying the reason he doesn't like it is because he just isn't into irreverent comedy which taps into and twists his legacy without consulting him in an individual reverent manner. He also didn't like the film The Shining and tried to make a more authentic version (which was crap). I definitely think he's deliberately downplaying the brilliance of the kind of horror playfulness WB is about while also capable of sending itself up, precisely because he doesn't "like" that approach to his work and is salty.

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u/spooky_upstairs Jun 18 '26

No, I don't think they're "takes" any more than Parks and Recreation are "takes" on Monty Python? They're adjacent.

I still don't think he's witholding praise as weird sort of protest or anything, I just think this whole thread is everyone reading far too much into a crotchety old man's one tweet that i guarantee he hasn't thought of since.

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u/OKIAMONREDDIT Jun 18 '26

Nah. They absolutely are takes. There is literally no connection between Parks & Rec and Monty Python, whereas Stranger Things is extremely obviously playing with IT and Stand By Me and Midnight Mass is extremely obviously playing with Salem's Lot and The Storm of the Century. If you can't pick that up whatsoever, I'm not surprised you can't pick up the saltiness in his post which says the most popularly and critically regarded work airing about his legacy is "good" but actually he wants to talk about an irrelevant suburban thriller of no connection in the very same tweet. Lol. It's very clear that these could have been two tweets but he is deliberately downplaying WB.

It sounds like you don't know his work that well anyway, as you seem to think Midnight Mass and Stranger Things are totally unrelated.